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1641 J. Burroughes Moses his Self-denyall 2 Faith above all graces..raises the heart the highest in communion with God, but keepes it downe the lowest in selfe-abasement.

1642 J. Caryl Wks. of Ephesus Explained 8 The duty of this day cals us to Self abasement and blushing.

1656 J. Owen Of Mortification of Sinne xii. 152 Such meditations as may serve to fill thee..with selfe abasement.

a1713 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks (1714) I. iii. iii. 331 The method of Self-Abasement may perhaps be thought the properest to make Approaches to the sacred Shrines.

1785 T. Kynaston Let. to T. Lindsey 187 St. Paul's peculiar humiliation and self-abasement arose from a consciousness of having been puffed up by vain philosophy.

1876 J. B. Mozley Serm. preached Univ. of Oxf. vii. 181 Self abasement, as illustrated by the parable of the sanctified Publican.

1883 H. Wace Gospel & Witnesses iv. 76 The Church's daily Confession, with its keen self-abasement.

1931 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 295/2 Never in the history of the nation was there such an exhibition of self-abasement, lack of self-respect, complete absence of every quality by which our race achieved independence and self-government.

1996 Granta Autumn 36 Someone with a strong streak of self-abasement, a chronically lowered sense of self.

2012 Internat. Jrnl. Hindu Stud. 16 105 Rites performed by male devotees that represent examples of self-abasement and self-torture.